The NBA’s first full-time female assistant coach brushed off any concerns about that crucial issue of, well, the men’s locker room.

When Roberts asked Hammon how it would be handled, she replied with a laugh: “I think it’s kind of silly, actually. … I’ve been coached by men the majority of my career. It has never been an issue. They have never walked in on us. I think it’s a non-issue.”

Her hire may have been celebrated across the nation as a first, but Hammon told Roberts that she didn’t go into the job with the intention of making history.

“It’s not that I set out to say, ‘I’m going be the first assistant coach in the NBA,’ ” Hammon said in the Saturday Q&A. “That really — it was never my intent. It just kind of happened very naturally.”

The ABC cameras also were on hand in the AT&T Center Friday, when Hammon got emotional as she officially said goodbye to her 16-year WNBA career with the San Antonio Stars, thanking her teammates and fans for their love and support.

She’ll be with them a little longer, however, as the Stars made it to the Western Conference playoffs. Their first game against the Minnesota Lynx is Thursday.

Hammon was smiling, however, when she recalled to Roberts her reaction when San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich called her to discuss joining the team.

“I’m sitting there, like, ‘Seriously? Seriously?’ And … he said, ‘You know, we got a spot for you.’ And he said, ‘I can even pay you.’ So I was like, ‘All right, cool, let’s do it,’ ” Hammon said.

She told Roberts that she called Popovich a little later to ask him a question. “I was like, ‘well, what exactly am I going to be doing?’ And he said, ‘Just the same thing as all the other assistants.’ Which means I’ll be getting yelled at, just like the other assistants also,” she said.

Hammon says she feels comfortable going into her new job with her level of experience.

“I feel like I’ve had 20 years of experience at a very high level, if you throw in college, playing overseas, I’ve played in hundreds and hundreds of games,” she said. “And a pick and roll in the women’s game is a pick and roll on the men’s game. … I mean, character, working for each other — trusting your teammates. That stuff, that’s universal.”

She also spoke of how wonderful it was to have grown up in a home that supported her interests.

“It was a neat phone call when I got to call them and tell them (about) the opportunity that was sitting in front of me,” she said, recalling the call to her parents to tell them about her Spurs hire.

Roberts also talked to the Spurs’ general manager R.C. Buford, who said Hammon has “prepared for this long before there was ever a WNBA to even aspire to. So she’s beaten the odds under so many circumstances.”

Does she hope her rise will encourage others to go for their dreams?

“If I could inspire hope in a young person,” Hammond said, “if I could inspire someone to dream a little bit bigger than what they thought they could ever be. I know that was the case for me, so I’m just so thankful.”